Physician
Brian Lugo, M.D., Medical Corp
Brian Lugo, M.D., Medical Corp was paid $232K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 60% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBRIAN LUGO, M.D., MEDICAL CORP
PASADENA, CA 91105
PASADENA, CA 91105
33aNPI1184938359assigned 07/29/2010
33bProvider typeSurgical Critical Care Physician
28Total paid$232K
24GClaims3,911
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Surgical Critical Care Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#1 of 13
Median peer was paid$3K
This provider vs. median67×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 145 | $14K | |
| 2019 | 722 | $38K | |
| 2020 | 928 | $62K | |
| 2021 | 1,556 | $86K | |
| 2022 | 20 | $446.04 | |
| 2023 | 455 | $27K | |
| 2024incomplete | 85 | $4K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 60% | 1,253 | 813 | $140K |
| 99292 | 16% | 638 | 492 | $38K | |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 14% | 1,027 | 654 | $32K |
| 93308 | 1.9% | 182 | 180 | $4K | |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | 1.6% | 156 | 82 | $4K |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | 1.5% | 253 | 251 | $3K |
| 76775 | 1.3% | 165 | 164 | $3K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 1.2% | 44 | 44 | $3K |
| 76604 | 1.2% | 142 | 142 | $3K | |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 25 | 25 | $1K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 12 | 12 | $475.97 |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 14 | 14 | $462.10 |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialLUGO, BRIAN (PRESIDENT)